The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for thisvery originality of style, and that posterity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
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